Where The Wind Takes Us: One Doggie Field After Another!
Suzi's mom Carol has been here at Choteau Mountain View RV Campground for about a month now.
We have a hill behind the park where the city water is, and she has been walking the trail to the top, getting farther each time.
Today she made it all the way to the top!
Congrats Carol!
The guys got a little digging done. They got the new pipe installed and glued to the sewer manhole.
The city sewer main is in the neighbors yard, across a gravel street.
They don't like the look of the upper 4 inch pipe so they are going to attach it to the 6 inch pipe after they cross the road and are in my yard.
They started to backfill, the metal tape is put on the pipe so if anyone ever needs to dig in the area they can find it without needing to dig.
So it turns out folks love sewer hookups for their RV's.
So, we are wanting to put sewer on the opposite side of the park from the city hookup, without having to pump stuff up hill.
Our plan is to put a 6 inch poly line all the way down to the other side of the park and attach any other sewer lines to the new line, plus put in occasional Ys in the line for future hookups. At the other end we will put in a manhole for clean out access plus there will be clean outs along the way. Then we will turn left uphill and replace any old utilities, and put in new. The Field to the East is unusable with too much broken infrastructure.
The diggers finally broke ground this week. This is where I get nervous...
Found out we have 2 pipes connecting into the city main.
The top one is a 4 inch pipe which is way to shallow for our neighborhood (part of the reason we are closed in the winter), and the 2nd pipe is the lower one is a 6 inch pipe and is actually broken right where it goes into the main. In the pic below they opened up the pipe to let stuff flow.
Here is a shot of the inside of the pipe showing how bad the blockage is. The workers think the brake might be from an earthquake we had a few years back.
Thought we had our leak figured out. it appeared to be one of the fuel lines. even had cracks in the hose.
Changed the hose tried it out, and it is actually leaking onto the hose from above.
Below is a video of the leak.
Ok, I think we figured it out again. on the end of the fuel injectors there is a pipe with an O ring, 2, one for each injector.
The way we accessed it is we had to remove 2 nuts (wrench in pic) and 2 bolts (wratchet in pic) (size 10mm)
Turned out the housing for the fan/belt was in the way. There is not a tension release on the fan belt, so I loosened the 4 bolts, (I did not need to remove them, just loosen) there are 2 on each side where wrenches are. (size 12mm)
It worked, no gasoline leak. : )
only problem was I had a red idiotlight flashing on the dash, turned out it was Morris code
I forgot to reattach the wire to the air filter
Well the eggs have hatched and we have 3 babies in the nest.
We have a resident Robin that made a nest on top of the portch light on one of our cabins recently.
This evening I noticed she was in the grass getting grubbs.
and it looked like she was feeding something, but they are too small to see the beaks peek up yet.
So far the start of the Memorial Day weekend has been much nicer than was forecast.
Saturdays sunset at Choteau Mountain View RV Campground
Got treated to a glimpse of the Northern Lights last night here at Choteau Mountain View RV Campground. Thanks to Sara for letting me know it was a good night to peek outside.
Not the best show we have ever seen, but was fun to see.
Looks like Sarah and Joe got a better view out West in Western Washington State.
Suzi made a cereal box viewer, and we just caught a peek at the partial eclipse here in Choteau, Montana.
Looking forward to the full eclipse here in 2044!
Drove past the lake on the way home from Great Falls.
Saw a few Snow Geese, Pelicans, and these Sand Cranes
oh, and saw this Bald Eagle too.
2 days ago the water was mostly open, but since the winter storm that rolled through it looks like most of the lake is frozen with some open areas.
Decided to go for a short drive to look at the birds, did not think we would see much due to the time of day, but we saw enough action to satisify us.
Today Geese estimates: 51,000
Swans: 5,953
